On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www.
Because it can change during normal system operation (rules out /usr and anything that typically resides on the root device), doesn't belong to any particular user (rules out /home - and your pages shouldn't belong to www-data unles you want to let crackers deface them), and it's persistent (rules out /tmp). > in addition, where do virtual hosts go? I keep mine in /var/www/domain.tld. Based on other responses in this thread, that seems to be a fairly common usage. > right now, i solve this by having symlinks from /var/www/servername to > the homedirectory of the responsible person for the domain, so that > the actual data reside on /home. Why the symlink? I make a domain-admin group for each vhost and chown /var/www/domain.tld to someuser.domain-admin. Lets the admins manage their own domains and keeps the data on /var where (IMO) it belongs. > why is debian apache making /var/www be the main directory, and why is > debian apache not providing an easily extensible location for virtual > domain data? Setting up a vhost is a system task. Since it already requires root access, putting the directory under /var/www instead of ~domainadmin isn't a significant burden. Creating a new domain-admin group requires an extra step or two, but allows for a vhost having multiple admins; if there's only one admin, this can be skipped. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius
